OpenAI and Anthropic cut prices as AI safety fights widen — September 23, 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic rolled out cheaper GPT-6 and Claude tiers after calling for slower AI, while Microsoft disrupted an AI-assisted phishing platform and British Columbia pressed a ChatGPT shooting lawsuit over safety duties.
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New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money — Ars Technica
Anthropic further claims that the savings are closer to 40 percent compared to Opus 5 for typical workloads at default settings, because in addition to the cost of tokens going down, Opus 5.5 also uses fewer tokens when completing tasks. Opus 5.5 is said to be notably capable in “high risk areas” like cybersecurity and biology, so the same protections that applied to Fable 5.1 will also apply…
Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts — Ars Technica
Microsoft said Tuesday that it led an industry-wide disruption of a subscription-based scam platform that used an AI chatbot to compromise 12,000 Microsoft accounts over a few-month span. Named EvilTokens, the platform was introduced over a Telegram channel in February and charged an initial $1,500 fee and a recurring $500 charge each month after that. EvilTokens provided a single service for…
Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting — Ars Technica
But even without the logs, British Columbia alleged that the defect with ChatGPT is not its users, but its design. Allegedly, OpenAI turned off functionality that would have terminated the Tumbler Ridge chats, then introduced a more sycophantic model that it already knew had assisted users bent on causing real-world violence. Since ChatGPT’s release, the model spec has always instructed the…
Diffusion Drafts, AR Verifies: Accelerating Document OCR with Self-Speculative Decoding — arXiv
Diffusion Drafts, AR Verifies: Accelerating Document OCR with Self-Speculative Decoding
# Diffusion Drafts, AR Verifies: Accelerating Document OCR with Self-Speculative Decoding
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